Wolter wrote:
If "Waiting Room" doesn't hook you into the world of Fugazi (TM), you might as well give up on them.
The best introduction to the uninitiated might be the Instrument DVD. It's hard to beat the live Last Chance For A Slow Dance and Shut The Door on there, never mind Guy singing Glue Man suspended from a basketball hoop (they don't show him falling into the drums).
Thanks to whoever started this. Now I got some Kill Taker on the stereo. "Irony is the refuge of the educated, always complaining but they never quit"...Jesus Christ, I often forget how much Fugazi fucking rules. Thanks for the reminder.
Sit on my lap, I'm sober! - cretin Dylan can never care about anything, not a troublesome woman, not a beleagured workingman, not a fingerless glove or sleeveless jacket, as much as Andrew WK cares about partying. - Silent Majority
BostonBeaneater wrote:It was a great show. Maybe 100-150 in the audience. It was in a church function hall in Cambridge, MA. $5 at the door with MacKaye and Lally working the door for a while. I saw them 5 times in all, each show go bigger than the last. They played a great show in 1990 or 1991 at Mass College of Art which was killer. Again, $5.
Another of a long list of bands I missed by virtue of living in a town that was slightly off the touring routes.
If they ever get back together I will literally kill to see them if I have to.
1991 would have made me 8-9 years old. I don't even want to think about what I might have been listening to at the time
BostonBeaneater wrote:It was a great show. Maybe 100-150 in the audience. It was in a church function hall in Cambridge, MA. $5 at the door with MacKaye and Lally working the door for a while. I saw them 5 times in all, each show go bigger than the last. They played a great show in 1990 or 1991 at Mass College of Art which was killer. Again, $5.
Another of a long list of bands I missed by virtue of living in a town that was slightly off the touring routes.
If they ever get back together I will literally kill to see them if I have to.
1991 would have made me 8-9 years old. I don't even want to think about what I might have been listening to at the time
This is great. Steady Diet was my first Fugazi record and I still have a soft spot for it. I remember loving it when I first got it, then feeling it was flat compared to some of their other material, and in the last couple years I've come around to its greatness again. This interview gets deeper into what was briefly touched on in that 33 1/3 about Killtaker, which is Steady Diet was supposed to be the record made with the band as "pure democracy." Ian laments the results a bit in that book, so I'm glad he's revised his tune somewhat here.
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
I really really wish I liked Fugazi more on an aesthetic—as much as anything, the hyperactive dominant bass hinders my enjoyment too much—because IM really is the model for living a moral life on punk standards. In practice, it's out of reach for most, but the existence of a living, breathing practitioner is so important.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
This is great. Steady Diet was my first Fugazi record and I still have a soft spot for it. I remember loving it when I first got it, then feeling it was flat compared to some of their other material, and in the last couple years I've come around to its greatness again. This interview gets deeper into what was briefly touched on in that 33 1/3 about Killtaker, which is Steady Diet was supposed to be the record made with the band as "pure democracy." Ian laments the results a bit in that book, so I'm glad he's revised his tune somewhat here.
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
I really really wish I liked Fugazi more on an aesthetic—as much as anything, the hyperactive dominant bass hinders my enjoyment too much—because IM really is the model for living a moral life on punk standards. In practice, it's out of reach for most, but the existence of a living, breathing practitioner is so important.
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
Most of the criticism I've read is that it seems sluggish comparatively. I guess I get it, but slow doesn't equal bad...
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
Most of the criticism I've read is that it seems sluggish comparatively. I guess I get it, but slow doesn't equal bad...
I always thought the slower numbers added a bit of a nice dub-style change of pace.
Weirdly, I felt like there was a short lived local backlash in my local scene against Killtaker for being retrograde and too much of an attempt to sound hard.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
IM is consistently one of the best interviews in music. If I have a "hero" in music, he's close to it.
I really really wish I liked Fugazi more on an aesthetic—as much as anything, the hyperactive dominant bass hinders my enjoyment too much—because IM really is the model for living a moral life on punk standards. In practice, it's out of reach for most, but the existence of a living, breathing practitioner is so important.
MAN, Lally is the best part!
I get why you'd be drawn to that, but it's just not an approach that appeals to me.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I never experienced the contemporary backlash with Steady Diet. Yes, everyone listened to the early eps and Repeater more, but most people I knew just thought it wasn’t quite as good as the absolute masterpieces released before it. Like, an A-after some A+ stuff.
Most of the criticism I've read is that it seems sluggish comparatively. I guess I get it, but slow doesn't equal bad...
I always thought the slower numbers added a bit of a nice dub-style change of pace.
Weirdly, I felt like there was a short lived local backlash in my local scene against Killtaker for being retrograde and too much of an attempt to sound hard.
Killtaker is a favorite of mine, but I wish the bass were a little more present. It's got a bit more of a harsh, top-endy sound.